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So the car already comes with Bananos, what does this give us?
Edit: looks like they are adding an option of 380, so I guess you can get bigger rotors. What else? What is their 350 capable of beyond what the stock 350 can do?
GT-R calipers are a big step up from the GT, but it's Brembo prices! Some other manufacturers like alcon or AP racing and such should come soon with more affordable options.
WOW! That seems really reasonable for AP stuff. Looks to be a very nice kit. I'd go AP or Stoptech in a heartbeat over Brembo's, but from what they're saying about the RS brakes, I'm thinking that a nice set of floating rotors, SS lines, and *maybe* a pad upgrade would be more than sufficient, unless it were for a real hardcore track toy.
Essex is one of our suppliers. I see their van at our shop a couple times a month. We do use Brembos in some of our NASCAR applications but not exclusively. The Brembo prices are pretty high.
I plan on doing a couple of track days but nothing too serious so I'm not really thinking about a brake upgrade at this point. I'll check with our brake guys and see who our contact is at Essex. Maybe I can help if they need to take some measurements or do some test fitting. They are on the far west side of Charlotte and we are on the north east side so not super close but I'll see what they say.
But why exactly do you want that? Because you feel like the car should? Or because the stock rear brakes don't provide sufficient performance? Or because you think it looks silly with sliding calipers in the back?
I will admit I think the look is a bit strange, but I have to trust the engineers: if they had a goal to withstand 30 minutes of track work with no degradation and single piston sliding calipers with solid rotors at the rear accomplishes that, then more power to them. Makes all our replacement costs that much lower.
It could be that the rear brakes turn into a weak link once people start modding, or that there is a substantial improvement in braking feel to be had by swapping fixed calipers at the back, but I'm not going to rush to judge until I've tried the stock system for myself.
The rear brakes on the ST never gave me an issue, they don't even seem to get very hot on the track, not compared to the fronts at least. I think you need a very brake heavy track to get the rears anywhere near hot.
Sliding rear calipers are only a pain if they are also the E-brake. If the are the E-brake you will have to screw in the piston or screw something to retract the piston for a pad change. The BRZ, Vette and some other cars have a drum E-brake so rear pad changes are easy. Cheap C clamp and 1 bolt, bam, pads are changed.
I suspect the rear caliper on the FoRS is the same as the Mustang and the piston will need to be screwed in for a pad change. It's one of Fords favorites.
"the rear c-clip axle had significant play within the axleshafts, something like up to 10-20mil"
sorry gave wrong numbers above. it was something more like 60-80mil of lateral play in the axleshafts with c-clip setup, which we were able to get down to about 10-15mil by rebuilding the Posi with more clutch plates and discs. Ultimately switched to Ford 9" ends. safer for the dragstrip too.
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